The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, according to
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is a book of sacred
scripture translated by
Joseph Smith, edited almost entirely by
Mormon (hence the name of the book), and containing 15 individual books written by various
Ancient American prophets almost all of which were written between 600 B.C. and 450 A.D.:
Some excerpts from
The Book of Mormon, relevant to the theology of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
2 Nephi 2:11,16--For it must needs be, that there is an
opposition in all things. If not...righteousness could not be brought to pass, nor wickedness, neither
holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad....Wherefore, the Lord
God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.
2 Nephi 2:25--
Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have
joy.
Mosiah 2:17--And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn
wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the
service of your fellowbeings ye are only in the service of your God.
Moroni 10:4-5--And when ye shall receive these things things, I would exhort you that ye would ask
God, in the name of
Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a
sincere heart, with real intent, having
faith in Christ, he will manifest the
truth of it unto you, by the power of the
Holy Ghost. And by the power of the
Holy Ghost ye may know the
truth of all things.